ABOUT EEP TALSTRA CENTRE FOR BIBLE AND COMPUTER
The Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer is a research center at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Theology. The ETCBC develops and maintains an advanced syntactic database of the Hebrew Bible and researches issues related to Ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, and Syriac syntax and exegesis by applying computational and statistical methods.
MASTER OF ARTS
The ETCBC offers an MA specialization in Biblical Studies and Digital Humanities.
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The Value of Open Data: An Explanation and an Exhortation
As August 2018 approaches, I enter my eighth year of full-time biblical/theological research. Even before that, a trove of the scholarly world had been available to me as I flipped open James Strong's 1894 Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In this formidable...
Hebrew in Mexico with the Bible Online Learner
By Janet Dyk Several years ago, after deciding that what I missed here in Holland was white water and after being unable to book a suitable rafting expedition in Belgium (in the summer the water in the rivers is too low for rafting and in the fall when there is enough...
From ETEN Workshop to Copenhagen Alliance for Open Biblical Language Resources
From 19-23 March 2018, the ETEN Workshop on the original languages took place. Invited by Nicolai Winther-Nielsen – a well-known visitor at the ETCBC – I had the opportunity to participate in this workshop. Soon it turned out that what started as a modest...